The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-23
CRAZE FOR wIl1TE:runS1TvRE.

Ono Room Tint Cost $4,000 to Fit Up
and Another TINT Cost Only s.5.
No sooner had VIC furnished our houses
In sombrc colors with dark mahogany
and carly English furniture of black
oak, which appeared worm.catcn, II It
really was not, when, 10 the dealers in. T
auguratc perfect craze In white furni.
ture, light-colorcd upholstered goods,
and from the dignitlcd and aristocratic
English or colonial styles We become
imbucd with the period of Louis Quinzc.
However, the dark rich furniture Is too
beautiful to give up without struggle,
and fashion now dictates that those who
Can afford 1t shall have each room In
their residence furnished to represent
not only distinct period, but n certain
country as well. Thus VIC have English
rooms, French rooms, colonial, Egyptian
and japanese apartments, according to
the purse or fancy. IS
The first .''wliite room" bull, in New
York of any prominence is the music
room in the Willard mansion, now owned
and occupied by Mr.. Whitelaw Reid.
The floor is highly polished in light
colorcd woods, and the entire apartment
is of ivory white, picked out with gold,
and in the panels OF the wall medallions
Of lutes, ribbons and scrolls OF music.
A handsome white room" has the floor
of polished wood, with here and there
white Aslrakhan rug; the furniture is of
white picked out with gold, upholstered
in white satin brocadc; the curtains and
other draperies are of white plush en-
broidercd with gold; the picture frames
are white and gold, white easel stands
in one corner and white and gold piano.
1t makes n most beautiful apartment.
Not long ago the writer described this
room to clever young wife who lives in
an adjacent town. She has comparatively
little money, but excellent taste; recently
she invited me to see her "whitc room"
which she surprised me by stating was
all the result of her own ingenuity and
cost but little. The wood floor has been
stained and polished to look like cherry,
and several white fox rugs, which cost
about 50 80, were laid here and there.
She had bought several OF the tripod
legged tables with pine tops. The legs
she painted with white gilt lines, using
the liquid gliding. The tops were COW
cred with white felt, with yellow satin
bows ut the corners and gold fringe She
also made mantel scarf OF white plush,
trimmed with yellow bows. An old
fashioned high-back kitchen chair she
painted white and made for it Il yellow
plush cushion.
One of the ordinary Shaker rocking
chairs was also painted white and gold,
and over the red and black braided seat
she had tackled white felt, with some yell :
low flowers embroidered Upon it, while
the back was decorated with a yellow
Chinese silk scarf. Plants grew in COM
mon ilowcr-pots, painted white, while
over the mantel was an old-fashioncd
oval mirror, such rs were used fifteen
years ago. Between windows she had
hung the mirror lengthwise and painted
its common black walnut frame white,
looping like white silk scarf, with gold
fringes around 1t. A milking stool, also
painted white, with bunch of yellow
flowers painted upon the seat, stood in
corner; at the windows were white China
silk curtains, tied back with yellow bows.
These curtains, being of the same nate
rial rs silk handkcrchiefs, of course
wash US well. n .s
Old disuscd walnut picture frames
were also painted and gilded TO match
the other articles. And beautiful wall
bracket was made Of q square OF pine
board, to which were nailed three little
shelves put on irregularly like three steps.
This also was painted white, gilded on
the edge of the shelves and hung up by
screw eyes, which were concealed by
yellow bows-a pretty yellow. A Leeds
vase was one of the ornaments, white
candlcstick which held a yellow twisted J
candle, a choice bit OF Royal Worcester,
which were among the possessions, and,
Of course, other ornaments about the
apartment A bird sang in q brass cage,
harmonizing with the decorations. The
effect was like fairyland, and in spite of
this fact the pretty owner of all informed s
me that this charming result was reached
at cost not exceeding $25. 1t would
be difficult to say which was the more
beautiful, the "white room with its
gorgeousncss and white piano, which
apartment cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000, or that Of the pretty young
housewife who, with little money but 4
much taste and industry, created an
apartment unique, beautiful, and better
ibnn all, showing her own individuality
-Ne,o York Mall ,|;,,
a Willy WAITER.
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